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CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company that creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. CBS owns the most-watched television network in the U.S. and one of the world’s largest libraries of entertainment content, making its brand — “the Eye” — one of the most-recognized in business.

Directors

Laurie Rosenfield

Chief People Officer

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Laurie Rosenfield serves as Chief People Officer, CBS Corporation. In this role, she focuses on people and culture, and she is responsible for managing certain human resources functions for the Company, including oversight of learning and development; executive search; talent acquisition; as well as the day-to-day human resources "generalist" responsibilities with each of CBS' business units.
Rosenfield joined CBS in May 2018 as Senior Vice President, People Development, Human Resources, CBS Corporation. In that position, she focused on senior executive development, using her blend of skills as a certified executive coach, talent evaluator and communicator.
Prior to joining CBS, Rosenfield was a specialist in executive search and talent development since 2002, most recently serving as Managing Director, Executive Search at MediaLink from 2014 to 2018, where she worked closely with clients experiencing disruption at the intersection of media, marketing, entertainment, advertising and technology. Previously, she was Global Director, Executive Search at Wolters Kluwer, a global information and technology services firm, and before that, she served as Senior Vice President of Client Services at Bishop Partners Executive Search, and as Director, Technology, Media & Telecom Practice at CTPartners. Rosenfield worked for CBS earlier in her career in Network Sales and Affiliate Relations. She began her career in programming and development roles in the motion picture divisions for both United Artists Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.
She serves on the board of STRIVE, a non-profit workforce development organization headquartered in Harlem.
Rosenfield is an alumna of Dartmouth College.

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Christy Tanner

Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS News Digital

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Christy is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS News Digital. In this role, she oversees CBS News on all digital platforms, including CBSN, CBS News' digital streaming news network featuring live, anchored coverage across platforms, as well as CBSNews.com, mobile apps and OTT apps. Formerly, Christy was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of CBS Interactive Media, a group of premier entertainment brands. Christy joined CBS Interactive through the company's acquisition of TV Guide Digital, where as CEO she transformed the business for an on-demand, streaming audience. She previously held executive positions with The Washington Post Company, Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier. Christy currently is a board member and special advisor to the executive committee of Digital Content Next, the leading trade organization serving premium digital content companies, where she previously served as co-chair from 2015-2017. Christy holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Hazel Ann Mayers

EVP & General Counsel of Simon & Schuster

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Hazel-Ann is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Simon & Schuster, Inc., a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. In her position, she has responsibility for all legal affairs for Simon & Schuster and its worldwide companies, including contracts, intellectual property management, litigation, trade issues, compliance and corporate governance and legal strategies for digital publishing. Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Hazel served as Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Litigation and Chief Compliance Officer for CBS Corporation, Simon & Schuster's parent company. In that role, she worked closely with CBS Corporation's executive staff, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, and the company's business units including CBS Broadcasting, CBS Interactive, and Showtime Networks. Before joining CBS, Hazel was an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP and Willkie Farr and Gallagher LLP. Hazel graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Law from the City College of New York and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and served as Co-Chair of the Association's Street Law Clinic, a program that educates elementary and junior high school students in the Boston area about their constitutional rights. Hazel also holds a certificate in Advanced Management from the Harvard Business School Executive Education program.

Jo Ann Ross

President and Chief Advertising Revenue Officer, CBS Corporation

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Jo Ann is a broadcast network sales veteran who has served in various sales roles at CBS over the last 25 years. Jo Ann, the first woman to serve as sales chief of a broadcast network and the longest-running sales head in broadcast television, was promoted to President and Chief Advertising Revenue Officer, CBS Corporation in August 2017. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the Company's multiplatform advertising sales effort. Jo Ann previously served as President, Network Sales, CBS Television Network since October 2002, responsible for overseeing all sales for CBS Entertainment, Sports, Daytime, News and Late Night. In addition to her new responsibilities, Ross continues to run the Network sales team in its many operations. Before being named president of the sales division, Jo Ann served as Executive Vice President of Sales at CBS (September 1998-2002), responsible for oversight of all sales for CBS' primetime schedule. She also played a major role in creating new ways to sell Network programming, including reality, scripted, news and late-night genres. She joined CBS in 1992 as Vice President of Olympic Sales, in charge of Network sales for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994 and the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. Prior to joining CBS, Jo ann was with the ABC Network for three years, where she sold daytime before being named a Prime Account Executive. Before that, Jo Ann worked at the media buying firm Bozell, starting as an assistant buyer and working her way up to Senior Vice President, where she ran the network buying department. Jo Ann received The Gracies Leadership Award from the Alliance of Women in Media in November 2018 and the IRTS' Hall of Mentorship Award in September 2018. She was inducted into the DTC Hall of Fame in 2015 and Broadcasting & Cable's Hall of Fame in 2013.

Tiffany Smith-Anoa'i

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Tiffany was named Executive Vice President, Entertainment Diversity, Inclusion & Communications, CBS Entertainment in February 2016. In this position, Tiffany oversees the entertainment division's diversity & inclusion initiatives and develops new programs that recruit, nurture and hire inclusive talent to work in front of and behind the camera. In addition, she serves as the entertainment liaison to multi-cultural coalitions and provides outreach to agencies, guilds and other industry organizations. She had been Senior Vice President of Entertainment Diversity & Communications since 2015. Since being appointed Vice President, Entertainment Diversity & Communications, CBS Entertainment, in 2009, Tiffany created and launched CBS On Tour, a community outreach program in which executives visit schools to educate and encourage students interested in entertainment careers; expanded the writer selection process for The CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, implemented an annual symposium with casting directors to strategize on best practices to diversify the casting process, partnered with GLAAD to host learning workshops and joined forces with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to encourage roles for women in front of and behind the camera.